"Roy’s appreciation for the country life stemmed from his love of God and His creation. He felt the cities were overcrowded and destroyed pieces of God’s beautiful land." He was glad he would get his grand-kids for the summer. "Jess missed a step on her way down the stairs and tumbled to the bottom... Glancing up. she was greeted by laughter from a rude, but very attractive, brown-haired boy with the bluest eyes she'd ever seen."
Jess' parents split up and her mom decides it would be good to get her kids out of Seattle for the summer, and take a trip to Roy's farm, where Jess hasn't been in the past 5 years. Jess can not even imagine what she is going to end up doing on a farm for the whole summer, without modern conveniences like cell phones and cable television. Her attitude changes as the book goes on and she ends up falling in love with God, the farm and the least likely guy.
The Perfect Cast is book 1 in the Love's Enduring Promise series. I was contacted by the author to review this book. Thank you T.K. Chapin for the opportunity to read your book. The prologue, which is a diary entry from Jess, and italic thought comments throughout are written in the first person and the rest of the book is in third person written from the perspectives of Jess, Roy (Jess' grandfather) and Levi. There are some present/past tense issues mainly toward the beginning of the book when Jess is thinking about things she and her father used to do before her parents split. The pacing and flow of the story are moderate to fast and some chapters overlap the timing of the book to give a better idea of what is going on. Tempers arise throughout and a death occurs but God prevails and finds some of his lost sheep. The end was shocking, unexpected and a bit anticlimactic.
This was a coming of age Christian romance; the author accurately portrays the teenage innocence at the beginning of the book and we see Jess and Levi grow and depend on God. This is a quick read that I would recommend to teens and adults. 4 out of 5 stars. Christian approved.
From the back cover:
“Meeting him was fate, loving him was a choice, and spending the rest of my life with him… well that was destiny.”
At the brink of adulthood Jess thought she had it all figured out, that was until her parents split and her mom whisked her away to the middle of nowhere. Her Grandpa’s farm was the last place on earth she wanted to be, and with no cell phones, internet or cable she was destined for a summer of boredom.
Man of Her Dreams
Clint Foster, the man who has everything going for him. Successful, charming and downright gorgeous; Can Clint be the true love she's been waiting for? Her only problem is her Grandpa’s farmhand Levi keeps getting in the way.
Trading in rock concerts for chicken coops and sneakers for cowboy boots; join Jess as she finds love in the unexpected places.
A clean christian romance about faith, love and family.
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